It’s time for Hamilton County Schools to look into the possibility of putting its lowest performing schools in the state-controlled Achievement School District.
Though slight progress was made on the 2014-2015 Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program by the county’s five Innovation Zone Schools, these schools lost ground compared to 2014 in many of the tested categories.
In the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System (TVAAS), which measures the impact schools and teachers have on their students’ progress by calculating individual student academic growth, four of the five schools received a level-one ranking. In that system, level one indicates the schools are “least effective,” and there is “significant evidence that the school’s students made less progress than the growth standard.”
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The five schools, Brainerd High, Dalewood Middle and Orchard Knob Middle, and Orchard Knob Elementary and Woodmore Elementary, were listed as priority schools by the state to begin with because they tested in the lowest 5 percent of scores statewide.